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Here’s That Beauty and the Beast/Harry Potter Mashup You Didn’t Know You Wanted

But, it turns out, you really did want it. In Beauty and Lord Voldemort, Pistolshrimps seamlessly edits Harry Potter footage into the live-action Beauty and the Beast trailer. You will never look at Voldemort’s smile the same way. In addition to being shocked at how well this worked, I had the slightly-worrying “…I think I’ve…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Feb 9

Snap CEO’s Supermodel Fiancée Is Sick of Facebook Stealing Her Man’s Ideas

Facebook-owned Instagram recently got done shamelessly copying Snapchat’s most popular features—kneecapping the company before its IPO in the process—and Miranda Kerr, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel’s supermodel fiancée, is fucking pissed. Kerr, who announced her engagement to Spiegel with Bitmoji, expressed her displeasure in an interview this past weekend with The Times: “I cannot STAND Facebook,”…

Social Media William Turton Feb 9

Microsoft Is Winning a Battle Against Government Surveillance

Microsoft just scored a point for its customers’ privacy. Today, US District Judge ruled that the government can’t avoid a lawsuit alleging that its surveillance operations violate citizens’ constitutional rights. The judge in question is the same one that Donald Trump recently referred to as a “so-called judge.” The case dates back to last April,…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Feb 9

You Can Now Open Castle Grayskull, or Your Front Door, Using He-Man’s Power Sword

Running around, bashing down doors with a giant sword in hand is generally frowned upon in modern society. So if you’re dealing with a secret He-Man fantasy you’re dying to live out, why not fill your pocket with a bunch of tiny swords that can open doors without destroying them? The Key Armory is back…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Feb 9

Elon Musk Responds to Claims of Low Pay, Injuries, and Anti-Union Policies at Tesla Plant [Updates]

Tesla’s effort to bring electric cars to the world has often felt like science fiction in real life. CEO Elon Musk’s continued defense of and association with the decided anti-science Trump administration has cracked that illusion somewhat, but an alleged employee’s impassioned post on the car company’s working conditions seems intent on shattering it completely.…

Tech News Avery Ellis Feb 9

Psycho Teen Lets People Die Because Wishes Are Cool in Wish Upon Trailer

The first trailer is out for Wish Upon, a supernatural horror film that actually looks pretty promising. This heroine isn’t just some girl fleeing for her life, she’s a selfish dick who gets a lot of people killed. But it’s all good, because yay wishes! Wish Upon is about a teenage girl named Clare (The…

io9 Beth Elderkin Feb 9

The Guy Who Makes Sure Trump Doesn’t Get Hacked No Longer Works at the White House

Remember the recent reports about how President Trump is still using his unsecured Android phone? Well, that situation just got scarier now that the White House’s chief information security officer reportedly no longer has a job. It’s unclear if Cory Louie, an Obama appointee with extensive experience working on security teams at places like Google…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes Feb 9

The Sex Addict in Fifty Shades Darker Loved Chronicles of Riddick As a Child

The sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, opens this weekend. As Universal started to screen the film, one minor, beautiful detail became the focal point for discussion online: the fact that Christian Grey’s childhood bedroom has a Chronicles of Riddick poster in it. Quick context since this is a bit out of…

io9 Germain Lussier Feb 9

Government Ethics Site Keeps Crashing Due to ‘Extraordinary’ Traffic for Some Reason

As journalists and government watchdogs scramble to hold the Trump administration accountable for a long list of potential conflicts of interest—including White House advisor Kellyanne Conway’s recent recommendation to “go buy Ivanka [Trump’s] stuff”—the US Office of Government Ethics (OGE) website has been experiencing repeated outages due to a surge in web traffic. The agency…

Tech News Michael Nunez Feb 9

Quinoa Shouldn’t Be a Rich People Food

Superfoods are bullshit. It feels like every time someone realizes an under-eaten or foreign food is high in nutrients and gluten-free, be it kale, quinoa or açai berries, marketers slap the “superfood” label on it and suddenly, it’s on grocery store shelves with jacked-up prices, catering to wealthy folks who fall for these kinds of…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 9

These Star Wars Soy Sauce Dishes Are Completely Absurd and I Want Them So Bad

Eating sushi is as much an art as making the Japanese delicacy. When it comes to enhancing the flavor of sashimi or nigiri you’re not supposed to just drown your sushi in soy sauce. A light dip is all you need, and these wonderful Star Wars soy sauce dishes will make it easy to know…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Feb 9

Jeff Bezos Talks to Alexa on the Can

Things can get pretty boring when you’re the fourth richest person in the world, so Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has installed one of his company’s products in every room of his house—including the bathrooms. In a new interview with Billboard, Bezos says he has installed an Echo or an Echo Dot, the mini version of…

Commerce William Turton Feb 9

What Part of a Character’s Origin Story Really Matters?

Greetings, denizens of the pre-apocalypse! My apologies that your mail is a little late today, but rest assured it’s just as non-existent as ever. This week: The new Who, if trailers can be spoiled, and what part of an origin story is completely essential. Rewriting the Past Justin M.: Dear Probably Shirtless and Slightly Robotic…

io9 Rob Bricken Feb 9

Don’t Waste Money on Intel’s Top Processor

It’s time to replace your computer. Maybe it was purchased during the last Republican administration, or you ruined it with a spilled drink, or maybe you’ve just got some money to burn and you’d like to blow it on Intel’s new Kaby Lake microarchitecture. Whatever the reason, you’re ready to upgrade your computer, and you’re…

Tech News Alex Cranz Feb 9

Someone Is Hungry in This Clip From The Girl With All The Gifts

We’ve done our best to let you know how good The Girl With All The Gifts is, with a positive review, raves about the book, and other articles, but words can only do so much. The same goes for trailers, which can sell anything. Now a clip has come out that proves our point: You’ve gotta…

io9 Germain Lussier Feb 9

World War II Shipwrecks Are Vanishing at a Disturbing Rate

Late last year, the Netherlands defense ministry confirmed that two of its ships lost during World War II had disappeared from the bottom of the Java Sea, likely the result of illegal salvaging. Now, a trio of Japanese shipwrecks off Borneo have likewise been torn apart for scrap, highlighting what appears to be a growing…

Tech News George Dvorsky Feb 9

Nobody Needs This Silicon Valley-Made Blood Sugar Tracker for ‘Wellness’ and Lifestyle

Since launching in 2011, Silicon Valley healthcare startup Sano Intelligence has kept a low profile. Despite raising $20 million in venture capital, the company founded by ex-Bain Capital analyst and bioengineering grad Ashwin Pushpala has yet to release its product—a continuous glucose tracker that sticks to a users’ skin and monitors blood through an app.…

Tech News William Turton Feb 9

Dozens of Patients Are Suing a Clinic That Gave Them Fake Alzheimer’s Diagnoses

Imagine that a doctor told you that your brain was slowly starting to self-destruct, that soon your once-healthy neurons would stop functioning, that you would lose all connection with reality, with the things and people that you loved. Then imagine that you found out that not only did that doctor make it all up, but…

Tech News Kristen V. Brown Feb 9

Some Asshole Star Just Ripped Apart Halley’s Comet’s Brother

Here’s your daily reminder that the final frontier is ruthless: For the first time ever, scientists have spotted a comet-like object getting torn apart by a white dwarf star. Thankfully, this pugnacious little star—called WD 1425+540—is located 170 lightyears away from Earth in the constellation Boötes, which may or may not be a piece of…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta Feb 9

Last Night’s Expanse Was More Proof That It’s the Best Scifi Show on TV

We’ve talked before about how good The Expanse, Syfy’s adaptation of the book series by James S.A. Corey, is, and this won’t probably won’t be the last time, either, But tucked into last night’s episode was a scene between Amos and Holden so good that we had to ask the actors involved about it. In…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Feb 9

Here’s That Beauty and the Beast/Harry Potter Mashup You Didn’t Know You Wanted

Snap CEO’s Supermodel Fiancée Is Sick of Facebook Stealing Her Man’s Ideas

Microsoft Is Winning a Battle Against Government Surveillance

You Can Now Open Castle Grayskull, or Your Front Door, Using He-Man’s Power Sword

Elon Musk Responds to Claims of Low Pay, Injuries, and Anti-Union Policies at Tesla Plant [Updates]

Psycho Teen Lets People Die Because Wishes Are Cool in Wish Upon Trailer

The Guy Who Makes Sure Trump Doesn’t Get Hacked No Longer Works at the White House

The Sex Addict in Fifty Shades Darker Loved Chronicles of Riddick As a Child

Government Ethics Site Keeps Crashing Due to ‘Extraordinary’ Traffic for Some Reason

Quinoa Shouldn’t Be a Rich People Food

These Star Wars Soy Sauce Dishes Are Completely Absurd and I Want Them So Bad

Jeff Bezos Talks to Alexa on the Can

What Part of a Character’s Origin Story Really Matters?

Don’t Waste Money on Intel’s Top Processor

Someone Is Hungry in This Clip From The Girl With All The Gifts

World War II Shipwrecks Are Vanishing at a Disturbing Rate

Nobody Needs This Silicon Valley-Made Blood Sugar Tracker for ‘Wellness’ and Lifestyle

Dozens of Patients Are Suing a Clinic That Gave Them Fake Alzheimer’s Diagnoses

Some Asshole Star Just Ripped Apart Halley’s Comet’s Brother

Last Night’s Expanse Was More Proof That It’s the Best Scifi Show on TV

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